Women of Mongolia

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780937321058
  • Publisher: Avery Press
  • Publication date: 9/28/1996
  • Pages: 160
  • Product dimensions: 7.02 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 0.62 (d)

Table of Contents

Different Perspectives
Recipe for marmot: Inkhe 12
Street sweeper: Narmanda 16
Ambassador: Baljinnyam 20
Continuity
By the Mountains: Manduhai 26
By the River: Myagmarsuren 30
South of Tuva: Yakherder 36
Near Erdenezu: Erdenechimeg 40
Country to City
The great migration: Camel lady 44
Milk girls: Oyuntuya and Oyungerel 48
On the steppe: Tsenden 50
On the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar: Dawajao 56
Factory job: Oyuntsetseg 62
Politics & Law
Office of the President: Jama 66
Constitutional Court: Sarantuya 72
At home: Dash 78
Buddhism & Tradition
Painter of Mongol Zurag: Baatar 82
Buddhist: Puntsag Dulam 90
Near a coal mine: Oyuna 94
Gobi Landscape
Woman whose father is beating wool for felt 102
Woman putting up a ger 106
Woman herder near Orok Nur 110
Single Woman in the Gobi 112
Camelherder: Dariimaa 116
Goatherder: Sunjidmaa 124
Drawer of water in the Gobi 130
Gobi Ovoo 132
Professional Women
Anthropologist: Tumen 138
The Bee Lady: Selenge 144
Physician: Oyuntsetseg 150
Museum curator: Shinebayar 154
Getting Started in Business
Craftswoman in Zunmod: Purevsuren 162
Shopowner in Amgalant: Chimge 166
Enterprising lady: Har Nuteng 170
Resilience
Half-Russian, half-Mongolian: Inna 174
Tractor driver: Mandakh 176
Diplomat: Tumen 180
Postscript
Member of Parliament: Narangerel 184
Preface 9
Map 188
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